KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Several times over the past year, Ned Yost floated the possibility of retirement when his contract to manage the Kansas City Royals expires after the upcoming season.
Then he realized he was having too much fun winning.
So after general manager Dayton Moore signed his own contract extension to remain in charge of the World Series champions, Yost decided to sign on for two more years. That means the 61-year-old Yost is committed to running the Royals’ dugout through at least the 2018 season.
“Once we won), Dayton and I, we didn’t really start talking contracts until the last couple of weeks,” Yost said Thursday at the club’s spring training home in Surprise, Arizona.
“I’ll have to get to the point in ’18 when I’ll have to evaluate it,” he said. “But you work so hard as a group to develop a winner and it’s hard to leave when they still have the ability to win. We think we have that opportunity through the next few years.”